Miami women at Florida International today at noon on ESPN +

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FIU beat Hampton yesterday 70 to 60. They are 4-6 and play in Conference USA. We have only played them once previously, it was December 31, 1986 on their campus and I was there. We lost.

Yesterday 5-8 Jr guard Parris Atkins had 21 and she is their leading scorer at 14.7 ppg. 6-4 Sr Isnelle Natabou and 5-11 Jr Angela Belloso both average 10.8ppg.

Coach Box was very pleased with the team and our 25 point win over GW yesterday. A win and we can finish the nonleague portion of the season 7-3. Next game starts the MAC season against the conference favorite Ball State.

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Yesterday was a good bounce back from a winnable loss to Purdue that they let get away from them late.

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Tamar got two fouls in the first minute and Cori Lard has been playing the point. We are up by 11 at the end of one.

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Up by 9 at the half. Eng with 13 and is 3-4 on threes. Lard very steady in extended minutes. We had 13 steals yesterday and have another 8 in the first half today.

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Tretter, Singer, and Richason all got two fouls and played limited minutes. Singer 2, Richason 5, and Tretter 10 minutes. Question. Is Hennessy Lu-Brown on the trip? Good thing Gonzalez is hitting.

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I’m pretty sure I saw Hennessy during warmups yesterday but she hasn’t played thus far.

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Uh-oh, fourth foul on Gonzalez.

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First time I’ve watched Miami in several years. My uninformed takeaway:

  • Gonzalez is very good
  • Everyone else…
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Serious home cooking, fouls are 20 to 8. Fourteen point lead cut in half. 46-39 end of third.

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Tretter and Gonzalez both picked up their 4 th fouls with just under two minutes to go in the third and we immediately started turning it over and the lead went from 13 to 5 quickly. We are up 7 at the end of 3 and in trouble. Gonzalez with 24 points and 4 fouls.

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Miami wins 62-55. Gonzalez finishes w 29 points.

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Wow! That game got really wild in the second half. We had 28 turnovers, 28! But they had 26. Our two stars both had 4 fouls late in the 3rd quarter but played most of the 4th quarter without fouling out. Maya Chandler got a technical and fouled out.

Gonzalez had a season high 29 points. Tretter had 10 and 7 including 4 points in one possession when we were up 4. The closest it got was 3 points. We actually pushed it back out to 13, but with a 3 at the buzzer they got it back down to 7. Great win for us because we pulled out a tough road win. 7-3, we open MAC play at home on New Years Day vs preseason favorite Ball State.

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Gonzalez is intense. She’s plays with a “Who pissed in my cornflakes?” look on her face every game.

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I really like the team Coach Box has put together in his second year. Fun to watch. They play with a lot of defensive intensity. Too many offensive turnovers but if they can clean those up and think we can win a lot of games in the MAC.

A big coaching improvement over the prior regime. However, Coach Box might want to step up his game day wardrobe a little bit. He looked like he came right off the beach to coach this one.

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It’s been the tradition for many years that coaches dress casually for these holiday tournaments. On Friday he wore a camp shirt with Miami logos and cargo shorts.

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